VARI-VARKIZA - 2008

Vari-Varkiza, ancient deme of Anagyrus (O.T. 194, property of N. Spyrou). M. Kassimi-Soutou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of a rectangular basement building. Its walls were irregularly constructed and it contained a stone staircase. The floor consisted of sand and gravel. A colonnette with its base was found in the building. Small finds include undecorated pottery sherds, handles, amphora toes, fragments from pithoi, few black-glazed sherds, 3 terracotta loom weights, a bronze coin, grindstones, 2 limestone tools, lead clamps, and parts of a bathtub. The building is identified as the storeroom of a house dating in the second half of the 4^th c. B.C.

A pit was found NE of this building. The pit contained sherds from pointed amphorae, pithoi, and black-glazed vessels. It also contained an Agora 25B-type lamp, which dates in the mid 4^th – first quarter of the 3^rd c. B.C.